India Releases Economic Survey Guiding Growth

The Indian government releases the Economic Survey 2025-26 on 29 January, reporting estimated real GDP growth of 7.4% and a halved fiscal deficit. It highlights credit-rating upgrades, healthy banking and capital-market support, while warning that geopolitical flux, currency weakness and China’s trade surplus complicate indigenization, export competitiveness and the need to create eight million annual jobs amid rapid AI advances.